A First Look at Archy Marshall's A New Place 2 Drown

A New Place 2 Drown is Archy Marshall's new project, who you might know better as King Krule. He doesn’t go by that name these days, which is nothing new; before Marshall was King Krule, he was Zoo Kid, and on certain nights and depending on the project, he also goes by Edgar The Beatmaker, DJ JD Sports, or Sub Luna City. Each name designates a certain sliver of Marshall’s creative output, and this string of aliases speaks to young Marshall's keen and evident desire to speak to the world only through his projects, and above all, not to be pinned down.

His latest project can’t even be contained in a single medium. A New Place 2 Drown is three things at once. 1) It’s a book, assembled with Marshall’s older brother Jack, a visual artist; 2) A short film, directed by Will Robson Scott, that offers a keyhole peek into the relationship between the two brothers, and 3) a new album under Marshall’s given name. He's calling it a "soundtrack" to the book, but this is the first music we’ve been given that could be considered Marshall’s follow-up to 2013’s 6 Feet Beneath The Moon. All of this stuff comes out December 1oth.

The book, for its part, is a sumptuous 208-page tome released by Topsafe London, containing drawings, collages, photographs, and poetry by both brothers: Take a look at a few pages below, exclusively on Pitchfork.